Snake River Falls not open for days...

No, they freeze it and cornstalkers haunt sits on top of the ice.

I believe it is "shut off" every night. Once the pumps are off, that's the end of the water supply from the lake, so it drains out.

Yep. If you go there first thing in the morning, you can watch them fill the ride with water before 10AM.

Except that the observation platform is now closed because it's not Handi-Accessible. If everyone can't get up there, no one can! :-p Only reason I could think of would be that the ramp is too steep.

^ Wow....really?! That's a little too much! We liked taking our kids up there to watch the rapids, and now that one of our twins is tall enough to ride, the other was going to watch him get soaked with mom or dad. That's kind of a bummer!

Thunder Canyon is drained every day.

As for the water, I find lake water much easier on the skin compared to chlorinated pool water, which is basically what they use on the other rides. I've swam in Lake Erie my entire life with no ill affects.

Just like chlorinate water causes no ill affects on the folks who swim in pools.

While chlorine may not cause any medical harm to most people, it does have some negative effects on many who come in contact with it, to skin and eyes especially.

Pete said:
Thunder Canyon is drained every day.

As for the water, I find lake water much easier on the skin compared to chlorinated pool water, which is basically what they use on the other rides. I've swam in Lake Erie my entire life with no ill affects.

Then you a heck of a lot younger than me. When I worked the original Shoot the Rapids we used to go through a pair of boat shoes every couple of weeks. The lake water just ate them up.

djDaemon said:
While chlorine may not cause any medical harm to most people, it does have some negative effects on many who come in contact with it, to skin and eyes especially.

And lake water (and what is in it besides water) can cause harm to folks as well.

I have a question, I have never walked through Corn Stalkers before so I was wondering were does the path take you? Like how far deep do you go into the ride and were do you go?

Dutchman said:
The lake water just ate them up.

Do you mean that the lake water just got the shoes really dirty?

I'm having trouble picturing the lake water as some form of acid. It'd bring a whole new level of fear to the waterfalls: hit the waterfalls, lose an arm. ;)

Ductchman, I doubt I'm much younger then you, if at all. I was 8 when the original Shoot-The-Rapids opened in 1967. I'm thinking your shoes fell apart just because they were always wet. However, did Shoot-The-Rapids get fresh water everyday or did the water stay all season in a holding pond? If the water was kept in a reservoir, I'm thinking the water may have contained lubricants and solvents from the ride after awhile which probably are not kind to shoes.

There was a holding pond as I recall, but they had to pump in make up water every morning. The was an awful lot of splash over with that ride, to the point that they drowned any trees that were within 10-15 feet of the flumes. That weird bend between the second and third drops was originally there because there was an old growth Oak that Mrs. Roose didn't want cut down. They built the flume around it, but the tree was dead by the end of the first season.

I'm not sure if it was open this past weekend when I was at the park. Saturday it looked like they were just testing it with water dummies, but if you look on the live webcam now, you can see that it is running today.

It was running with people today both times I went by it.

I asked them about this today on the phone but the rep said it was still down.